pétris
\pe.tʁi\
The verdict
“pétris” is uncommon French (frequency #69,341 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,341
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de pétri.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petris · pétris · French
pétris · rank #69,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,341
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pâtissent
Nearest frequency peer: pâtissent (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pétris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pustules
pustules
30,664 corpus weight
- pyrénéens
pyrénéens
30,663 corpus weight
- pâtissent
pâtissent
30,661 corpus weight
- pétris
pétris
30,660 corpus weight
- Pétronille
Pétronille
30,659 corpus weight
- qualificati…
qualificatives
30,657 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétris is uncommon French at frequency #69,341 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de pétri.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pétris, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pétris, spelled P-É-T-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de pétri.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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